“The Stars Are Out Tonight” by Floria Sigismondi, For David Bowie, With Tilda Swinton (5’54″)

“Bad Lip Reading” Goes Indie Spirit (2’06″)

I can imagine Tilda Swinton saying that.

Annapurna Pictures Raises A Beautiful, Declarative, Grandiloquent Middle Finger

Annapurna Pictures cuts together a brief, taut sizzle reel from its first productions, Lawless, The Master, The Grandmaster, Killing Them Softly, Zero Dark Thirty, Spring Breakers, and does the litany of lines from them not sound like a bold declaration of intent? In part: “‘I’m bad news, I’m not your friend…’ ‘I knew y’all was special, it’s written on your faces…’ ‘Let’s cause some trouble now…’ ‘Don’ you ever touch me agin…’ ‘I just want to make something clear, there is nobody else, there’s just us…’  ’Everybody’s miserable here, they just see the same things…’ ‘If we are not helping him, then it is we who have failed him…’ ‘Don’ make me laugh, I’m livin’ in America and in America you’re on your own.’” And to add one more: “Ye shall know them by their fruits.”

Cinetic’s John Sloss On Oscar On Bloomberg (4’06″)

9 Best Drinks: RAISE ONE TO THE BEST PICTURE NOMINEES

The drinks menu at my fifth Academy Award-coinciding party (Cleo’s, 1935 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago)

A Trailer For An Issue Of A Magazine Themed To Film With “Raymondo Winstonio” (1’08″)

PORT / Issue 9 / Spring 2013 / Preview from PORT on Vimeo.

Genially, this is the equivalent of Ray Winstone binding himself in a three-piece suit and declaiming the phone book.

The Césars’ “Hommage aux disparus”: Those Who Passed In French Cinema 2012 (4’15″)

VICE shorts: Spencer Susser’s “I Love Sarah Jane” with Mia Wasikowski (14’39″)

“When you’re young and in love the air seems clearer, the sun seems brighter, there’s a spring in the step… But all can so easily go to shit especially with a zombie apocalypse involved.”

Bruce Willis On Oscars For Action Or Comedy

[GQ, March 2013.]

Red-Band Trailering Harmony Korine’s SPRING BREAKERS (2’04″)

The looping, fugue-style fashion of the film comes across cleanly in the compacted form of a trailer, conveniently enough. That, plus that “m” word.

Stream Shane Carruth’s UPSTREAM COLOR score

Lena Dunham: “It’s funny to me…”

[Rolling Stone Issue 1177.]

Donald Richie on AU HASARD, BALTHASAR (4’37″)

[Via Criterion.]

Tony Kushner Talks HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE on Charlie Rose (1’55″)

Tracy Emin’s Times Square MIDNIGHT MOMENT Valentines’ Video (1’26″)

Tracey Emin Midnight Moment video from s[edition] on Vimeo.